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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I examines literary representations of enslavement through the lens of emotional experience across four centuries. This scholarly collection features seventeen chapters exploring how diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented from the 16th century to the present, spanning multiple regions, languages, media and genres. Contributors analyse emotional life using frameworks of sentiments and affects, investigating how emotions intersect with literary movements including melodrama and realism. The volume traces the development of emotional representation in slavery literature across historical periods and cultural contexts, offering comprehensive insights into how writers have portrayed the psychological and emotional dimensions of enslavement. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co as part of the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages series, this work provides essential reading for scholars of literary history, postcolonial studies, and the cultural legacy of slavery.

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The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery focuses exclusively on emotional representations of enslavement across centuries and continents.

Seventeen chapters explore sentiments and affects generated by slavery, examining emotional life through distinct literary and theoretical frameworks.

Contributors analyse how emotions intersect with melodrama, realism, and other literary movements in slavery literature across diverse genres and media.

The collection spans from the 16th century to the present day, tracing historical development of emotional representation in Atlantic world and beyond.

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co as Volume XXXVI in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages series.

Essential resource for literary scholars, historians, and researchers studying cultural representations of enslavement and emotional dimensions of slavery.

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12 December 2024
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